Re: a garbage collection book

2000-08-30 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:15:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I didn't realize until I read through parts of this exactly how much time a > > refcounting GC scheme took. Between that and perl 5's penchant for > > flattening arrays and has

Re: a garbage collection book

2000-08-30 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:15:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I didn't realize until I read through parts of this exactly how much time a > refcounting GC scheme took. Between that and perl 5's penchant for > flattening arrays and hashes (which creates a lot of garbage itself for > biggi

Re: a garbage collection book

2000-08-30 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:10 AM 8/30/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >Something for the reference shelf: > > Garbage Collection > Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management > Richard Jones & Raphael Lins > John Wiley and Sons, 1996 > ISBN-0-471-94148-4 > >Still haven

Re: a garbage collection book

2000-08-30 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:19:35PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JH> Introduction > JH> The Classical Algorithms (refcounting, mark-and-sweep, copying) > JH> Reference Counting (several variants) > JH>

Re: a garbage collection book

2000-08-30 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> Introduction JH> The Classical Algorithms (refcounting, mark-and-sweep, copying) JH> Reference Counting (several variants) JH> Mark-Sweep (ditto) JH> Mark-Compact (ditto) JH> Copying (various strategies) JH>

a garbage collection book

2000-08-30 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Something for the reference shelf: Garbage Collection Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management Richard Jones & Raphael Lins John Wiley and Sons, 1996 ISBN-0-471-94148-4 Still haven't had time to delve into it but from a quick browse it looks real